What books are you reading or are planning to read?

Yes, but your last sentence indicates that monotheism as discovered by the Jews presupposes empire, which is to say a worldly center that equalizes all the margins. (On this definition, any modern state is an "empire.") In that case, we could expect a historical dialectic between monotheism and imperial structures.

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Yes, I agree. This needs to be part of the discussion of "unsecure power."